Subject: wont write to sent

From: Dominic Candeloro <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:42:57 -0600 (CST)

keep getting an error message that my email copy to sent file
failed and that I have exceeded the disc space quota.  This even after I
have deleted almost every file in sent.  Any suggestions?

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From: Robert J Wilshe <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:13:49 -0600 (CST)

Dominic:

Check with your school's mail administrator or IS department to see if you
have a certain disk space quota.  Most standard-issue school email
accounts (like mine) are given a certain amount of total disk space you
can occupy.  This is usually the total of your mailbox, and whatever space
the files in your home directory take up.  If this is small (less than
500k) you really don't have enough room to archive much mail.

It appears from the message headers in your mail that you are using Pine
3.95 on a UNIX Solaris system.  Usually under most UNIX configurations,
your mailbox (INBOX) is stored in a different location than Pine's
folders.  Pine's folders are stored in your home directory in a
subdirectory named "mail".  Do the "ls -la" command in that directory to
see how much space whatever files in there are taking up.

Also, try these things: 

1)  Clean out mail in your "saved-messages" folder, or in any pruned
folders you might have in your mail directory. 

2)  Consider FTPing or transfering any mail archives off of your mail
directory onto a floppy or other hard drive. 

3)  Clean out any unneeded files in your home directory.

4)  Delete any unwanted messages in your INBOX if you haven't already. 

5)  Once you know how much disk space you're allotted, run the "du -ak"
command from your home directory.  The last number that appears in the
list that follows is the total disk space your home directory occupies in
Kilobytes.  This will help you keep tabs on your disk space used (not
including what you have in your INBOX.

Hope this helps!  Feel free to write me directly for additional help or
questions.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 09:22:52 +0000 (GMT)

Consult your local Help Desk support staff for assistance.  They should be
familiar with the disk quota mechanism on your computer systems, and have
access to correct any faults.

We (random people around the world) aren't/don't.

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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